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Oracle XE client

Hi Friends,

I have installed Oracle XE client on my PC.
I check on its home dir (bin), and I found the proram sqlplus.exe
At DOS I run sqlplus system/manager but I want to connect to
my database server on another server.
How can I configure this connection pls? I look for tnsnames.ora
but I can not find any.

Thanks dear for speedy reply.....I check the home dir of XE client and and can not find sqlnet.ora either...
but when i run sqlplus system/manager just to test connection...It
created a sqlnet.log error:

Note that the XE server side has no problem. I can use its sqlplus.exe adn can connect to any remote server defined in the
tnsnames.ora.

But when I use the sqlplus.exe found in the client bin it will not
connect to a database even the local one. I even set the TNS_ADMIN variable because the client install does not create
a directory %ORACLE_HOME%/NETWORK/ADMIN

Another question is....where does my sqplus.exe client got the
following information(default params) which it logged to the sqlnet.log :